No he hasn’t. Of course he hasn’t. My apologies for leading you to think that he had.
However, it does help me draw attention to this accurate depiction (comic below) of what ‘football blogging’ can be like when you get people chasing the almightly dollar / pound with scant regard for quality, principles or even long-term sustainability and success.
We have some really talented bloggers here on Soccerlens and elsewhere in the community. A lot of what we do (as a football blogging community) is fascinating work – football is a uniting force across many disciplines and you’ll see art and literary genius in football blogs and podcasts all around you.
After 3 years, I’ve stopped complaining about ‘bloggers writing only to make money’ or journalists ‘painting’ stories a certain way just to get more attention to an article with no point to it (the irony isn’t lost on me here). I’ve stopped admiring and loathing journalists from afar, and I’ve pretty much made my peace with the Sun and the rest.
There are times though, when journalists and bloggers go too far – both in making up stories and in reporting them. If you’re concocting something from nothing and misleading people, you’re scum. But if you’re reporting unverified news in a rush to be ‘first’ without doing the most basic of fact-checks – you’re a moron.
Studs Up by Chris Toy
I totally agree Ahmed.
The internet is cluttered with lies and half-baked articles written by people with a very limited knowledge of their subject out to make money even if it’s at the expense of journalistic credability. I used to write for Sport.co.uk but left for these exact reasons. It was all about writing vacuous articles with headlines designed to generate as much traffic as possible. It wasn’t the sort of stuff I wanted to write and it’s not what football fans deserve to be exposed to and patronised by.
There are as many morons out there that want to read such trash as there are people willing to write it. As for making peace with the Sun, there will never be a day that i will be saying/feeling that.
Whilst I agree with this piece i think i doesn’t need saying, I think most people know which literature is reliable and which medias are after numbers, and if you believe anything on face value then more fool you.
I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said “The man who never looks into a newspaper
is better informed than he who reads them”
Very true. Rafa had walked out and back in again on atleast 3 blogs I read last week.
I think this is just a reflection of the wider media as a whole. The truth has gone out of the window and we are in fantasy land. I don’t want to go all conspiracy theorists on you but i think the amount of lies the media has been forced by government controlled editors to tell for the last few decades has meant they have just thrown their arms up in the air and said sod it if everything is BS then lets just go all the way with it into fantasy land. Unfortunately its one of the main reasons the print media and television is going down the pan as people search for the truth. As the old saying goes he cream will rise to the top.
Rafa has not quit yet but at the rate Liverpool are playing – I would not be surprised if he got sacked after 2 more defeats like the one to Aston Villa.
Rafa get sacked? I’m a Utd fan but that statement is ludicrous. Anybody with fundamental footballing sense knows that no one has ever won a title by sacking the coach midway through the season.